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Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Superconductivity in the single-band hubbard model: mean-field treatment of slave-boson pairing

Thilo Kopp, F. J. Seco, Stephan Schiller, P. Wölfle

Published Dec 1, 1988• 14 citations
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Abstract

We investigate the possibility of superconductivity in the large-$U$ limit of the Hubbard model near half filling, using a slave-boson representation. The local constraint is treated in a novel way, incorporating short-range fluctuations in addition to the global constraint. We find slave-boson pairing and a superconducting extended $s$-wave phase at hole concentrations $\ensuremath{\delta}$-above 4% and below 32%.

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10.1103/physrevb.38.11835

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We investigate the possibility of superconductivity in the large-UUU limit of the Hubbard model near half filling, using a slave-boson representation. The local constraint is treated in a novel way, incorporating short-range fluctuations in addition to the global constraint. We find slave-boson pairing and a superconducting extended sss-wave phase at hole concentrations \ensuremathδ\ensuremath{\delta}\ensuremathδ-above 4% and below 32%.
Slave bosons are commonly introduced in order to implement an infinite Hubbard U by means of a local constraint. The usual starting point for investigations within this scheme is a mean-field theory in which the constraint is taken to be global. This approximate treatment of the constraint is studied in the context of a two-band Hubbard model, and it is shown that (i) the ground state has a significant number of doubly occupied sites, despite the infinite on-site repulsion in the original model, and (ii) there is an unphysical tendency for pairing. However, it is found that if the local constraint is retained for the insulator at half filling, then mean-field theory gives the correct result that the double occupancy is zero.
The superfluid characteristics of the attractive Hubbard model are analyzed for any coupling |U| and arbitrary electron concentration (0n2) by means of the slave-boson mean-field method and also by the perturbative treatment of the strong-coupling limit. The slave boson method takes into account correlations of electrons and yields a reliable description of the crossover from BCS-type superconductivity to local pair (composite bosons) superconductivity with increasing |U|. The results for the ground state (the free energy, the gap in the excitation spectrum) and the electromagnetic characteristics (the critical magnetic field, the London penetration depth, the coherence length) are compared with those obtained by the Hartree-Fock approximation and by the self-consistent second-order perturbation theory in the weak-coupling limit as well as with those obtained using perturbational approaches in the strong-coupling limit. We show that the slave-boson method, in contrast to the Hartree-Fock approximation, gives credible results for all investigated quantities in the whole interaction range, interpolating smoothly between the BCS and local pair regimes. A comparison of theoretical predictions for our simple model with experimental data for various families of short-coherence-length superconductors suggests that the best agreement can be obtained for intermediate values of the local attraction. \textcopyright{} 1996 The American Physical Society.
Using the slave-boson method in its spin-and charge-rotational invariant representation we determine stability of the superconducting state in the Hubbard model with correlated hopping.In general the term with correlated hopping violates electron-hole symmetry, however, in the special case when the correlated hopping integral X is equal to the uncorrelated hopping inte- gral t the electron-hole symmetry remains.We investigate this case and show that correlations induced by onsite Coulomb interactions U yield to the nor- mal state with exactly single occupied sites (corresponding to |U = oo)).The phase diagram of the superconducting state is determined for the different electron concentration n.At the half-filled band (n = 1) a direct transition from the Mott insulator to the superconducting state occurs.
We investigate the single-band Hubbard model with random site energies in the strong-repulsion limit, as represented by the slave-boson formulation of the t-J model. It is essential to include the correlations between the slave-boson mean field and the disorder. This leads to the widening of the non-Fermi-liquid (``generalized Mott insulating'') region around half filling. In the Fermi-liquid regime we apply the renormalization-group method. The resulting phase diagram has superconducting, magnetic, and insulating phases. The disorder generally suppresses superconductivity and gives rise to the formation of localized magnetic moments.
Slave boson mean-field studies of the ground state of the Hubbard model with correlated hopping were performed. The approach qualitatively recovers the exact results for the case when the hopping integral ttt equals the correlated hopping integral X.X.X. The phase diagram for the strongly correlated state with only singly occupied sites, the weakly correlated state, where single and double occupation is allowed, and for the superconducting state, was determined for any value of XXX and any electron concentration n.n.n. At the half-filled band (n=1)(n=1)(n=1) a direct transition from the superconductor to the Mott insulator was found. In the region of strong correlations the superconducting solution is stable for nnn close to 1, in contrast to the case of weak correlations, in which superconductivity occurs at $n\ensuremath{\approx}0$ and $n\ensuremath{\approx}2.$ We have also found that strong correlations change the characteristics of the superconducting phase, e.g., the gap in the excitation spectrum exhibits a nonexponential dependence on the on-site Coulomb integral UUU close to the phase-transition point.
A slave-spin representation of fermion operators has recently been proposed for the half-filled single and multiband Hubbard model. We show that with the addition of a gauge variable, the formalism can be extended to finite doping. We solve the resulting spin problem using the cluster mean-field approximation. This approximation takes short-range correlations into account by exact diagonalization on the cluster, whereas long-range correlations beyond the size of clusters are treated at the mean-field level. In the limit where the cluster has only one site and the interaction strength UUU is infinite, this approach reduces to the Gutzwiller approximation. There are some qualitative differences when the size of the cluster is finite. We first compute the critical UUU for the Mott transition as a function of a frustrating nearest-neighbor interaction on lattices relevant for various correlated systems, namely, the cobaltates, the layered organic superconductors and the high-temperature superconductors. For the triangular lattice, we also study the extended Hubbard model with nearest-neighbor repulsion. In addition to a uniform metallic state, we find a $\sqrt{(3)}\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}\sqrt{(3)}$ charge density wave in a broad doping regime, including commensurate ones. We find that in the large UUU limit, intersite Coulomb repulsion VVV strongly suppresses the single-particle weight of the metallic state.